Majeed works as a consultant/program administrator at Walk About Your Business, a program sponsored by the Australian government and the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (http://walkaboutyourbusiness.com.au/), to help Aboriginal people start businesses. Pretty sweet program. We had an AWESOME experience with Maxine, one of the participants in the program. One lovely Sunday in October, Maxine invited us to hang out with her and her sister where they live, in Litchfield National Park. Litchfield is about a 2 hour drive from Darwin so we left early, picked up Jen, Majeed's coworker (who was also his coworker at YMCA in Ottawa) and headed out. On our way we stopped at the Rapid Creek Market, around the corner from our place, to pick up some delicious fresh fruit. Yum. The drive there was beautiful and mostly uneventful, except that we
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